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title: "Witkraagijsvogel"
description: "Todiramphus chloris — Vogels. The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/collared-kingfisher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Witkraagijsvogel

> Todiramphus chloris — Vogels. The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers.

- Scientific name: *Todiramphus chloris*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 11484
- Wikidata: [Q31898](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q31898)
- iNaturalist taxon: [472078](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/472078)

## Names

- en: Collared Kingfisher
- de: Halsbandliest
- es: Alción Acollarado
- fr: Martin-chasseur à collier blanc
- nl: Witkraagijsvogel
- pl: Łowczyk obrożny

## Countries with the most observations

SG (4075), ID (1755), TH (1481), MY (1330), PH (1026), IN (422), VN (296), TL (147), KH (63), PW (60), BN (55), AE (45)

## Summary

The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the white-collared kingfisher, black-masked kingfisher or mangrove kingfisher. It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia to Melanesia.  A number of subspecies and subspecies groups have been split from this species including the Pacific kingfisher, the Islet kingfisher, the Torresian kingfisher, the Mariana kingfisher, and the Melanesian kingfisher.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collared_kingfisher

## Photo

![Witkraagijsvogel](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/collared-kingfisher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/206593460

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/collared-kingfisher?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).